bind up my wound, and desired | into the chamber, at the sight of

some wine to prevent fainting,
which I found coming upon me.
My strength being a little reco-
vered, I got to Anet, the keeper
of which gave me an apartment,
where I caused the first dressing
to be put on my wounds, in pre-
sence of the Marechal Biron, who
spent a few moments there after
my arrival, and took a collation
in my chamber.
He was con-
ducting the corps de reserve, which
he commanded, to the king, who,
without stopping after his victory,
had passed the river of Eure, in |
pursuit of the enemy; and, as it
was reported to me, had taken at
last the road to Rosny, where he
lay the same night.

After the Marechal Biron was gone, D'Andelot arrived at Anet, full of resentment against me for wresting from him his prize, for so he thought it. He entered my chamber, attended by five or six armed men, and, with an air equally fierce and insulting, demanded an explanation, or rather sought to do himself justice for, perceiving the white standard, which, with that belonging to my company, had been placed at the head of my bed, he would have taken possession of it by force, without attending to what I said to him. I changed my tone immediately, and words ran high on the one part and on the other. In the condition wherein I was, I could do no more. But as he spoke with passion, and made use of threats, the noise drew fifteen or twenty of my armed troopers

whom D'Andelot restraining his rage, went out, commanding De Sigogne to follow him, which he refused, and endeavoured, but in vain, to make him comprehend the injustice of his pretensions.

The next morning I caused myself to be carried by water to Passy, with an intention to go from that to Rosny, to get myself cured. On my arrival at Passy, I learned that part of the soldiers in my train, and my valets, with all my baggage, had retired thither, not knowing what was become of me, and intimidated by a false report which was spread, that the king had lost the battle. Being apprehensive of the reproaches I might make them, they kept themselves concealed. I caused them to be sought for, but they were so much ashamed of having discovered their cowardice, that the night following they fled away on foot; nor have I since been ever able to learn what became of them. They left all my baggage behind them, with four of their own horses, which I ordered to be sold by auction, and I distributed the money among their wounded companions.

As I was not in a condition to endure a horse, I ordered a kind of litter, composed of the branches of trees, with the bark still on, and the hoops of some vessels, to be made for me in haste, and travelled by Beurons, to avoid the ascents and declivities of Rougevoie and Chatillon.

Maignan, who was a youth full of gaiety and imagination, thought

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dit's two companies of arquebusiers. They had taken such a part in the fight, that you could see nothing among them but heads bound up and arms in scarfs; and some of these brave soldiers were even obliged to have themselves carried.

When we came near Beurons, we perceived all the plain covered with horses and dogs; and the king himself, who, after a slight repast, had returned from Rosny to Mante, hunting in my warren. This show seemed to rejoice him; he thought it very happily disposed, and smiled at the vanity of Maignan, who had the honour of being known to this prince, ever since his father, who was a very brave man, had distinguished himself at the taking of Eause.

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proper to give this march the air | of a little triumph. Two of the grooms of my stable were at the head of this train, each leading one of my finest horses; they were followed by my pages, one of whom rode on my horse, the same who, having received three wounds in the battle, and being thrown to the ground by a fourth, got up again without a saddle, and running about the field of battle, was fortunately recognised by three of my arquebusiers. This page carried my cuirass and the Duke of Mayenne's standard, the other bore my bracelets and my helmet, all so bruised and battered, that they were no longer of any use. My equerry, the contriver of this pleasant fancy, marched next, his | head bound up, and his arm in a scarf; he was followed by Mo-king approached my litter, and, reines, my valet-de-chambre, dress- in the sight of his whole train, ed in my coat of orange-coloured disdained not to descend to all the velvet, with thin plates of silver, testimonies of sensibility that a and mounted upon my English friend (if I may be permitted to nag, holding in his hand, as make use of this term) could rentrophy, a bundle of the fragments der to his friend. I could not of my pistols, the broken pieces express my acknowledgment by of my swords, and the remains of throwing myself at his feet, but I my plume of feathers. The litter assured him, and with truth, that in which I lay came next, covered I would suffer with pleasure a only with a cloth, upon which, thousand times more for his serat the four corners, they had hung vice. the black velvet coats of my prisoners, with their plumes, and pieces of their pistols and swords. These prisoners themselves followed my litter, and preceded the rest of my train; after whom, ranged in order, came my own company of household troops, and the march was closed with James' and Bad

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He had made himself acquainted with all the hazards I had run in the battle. He inquired, with an obliging anxiety, whether all my wounds were of such a nature that I might hope to be cured without mutilating any part of my body, which he thought almost impossible, knowing that I had been thrown down

JAMES THE FIRST'S COMING TO ENGLAND.

(Nichol's Progresses.)

A.D. 1603.

It was the 5th of April, being | where his Excellence reposed himTuesday, that his Majesty depart- self that night. ed from Edinburgh, gallantly accompanied with multitudes of his nobility, lords, barons, and gentlemen of Scotland, and some French, as the French ambassador, being Leger in Scotland (whose wife was carried between Edinburgh and London by eight pioneers or porters, one four to relieve the other four by turns, carrying her in a chair with slings), as also his Majesty, being accompanied with his own attendants, as the Duke of Lennox, the Earl of Argyle, the Earl of Murray, the Earl of Cassilis, the Earl of Mar, the Lord Home, the Lord Oliphant, and sundry others, too tedious in this place to be repeated, for that their several names shall hereafter be more particularly expressed. Besides, there were in his highness' train many numbers of gallant and well appointed English English knights and gentlemen, who attended his Majesty that day from Edinburgh unto Dunglass, a house of the Lord Home's,

Wednesday, the 6th of April, his Majesty progressed from Dunglass towards Berwick, having then attending on him many more noblemen, knights, and gentlemen, besides the Lords Wardens of the borders of England and Scotland, attended by the borderers, with several companies to receive him; the Lord-Governor of Berwick also being accompanied with all the council of war, the constables with their cornets of horse, and divers of the captains, the band of gentlemen pensioners, with divers gentlemen, advanced forward to entertain and conduct his Majesty into the town of Berwick. Happy day! when peaceably so many warlike English gentlemen went to bring in an English and Scotch king both included in one person, into that town that many hundred years hath been a town of the enemy, or at least held in all leagues either for one nation or the other. But the King of Peace have glory

that so peaceably hath ordained a king descended from the royal blood of either nation, to make that town, by his possessing it, a harbour for English and Scots without thought of wrong or grudging envy.

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of the sun, so did these clouds of smoke and gunpowder vanish at his gracious approach; in the clearness of which fair time issued out of the town Mr. William Selby, gentleman-porter of Berwick, with divers gentlemen of good repute, and humbling himself before the king's majesty, presented unto him the keys of all the ports, who re

Not to digress any longer, these gallants met him, and were graciously respected of his highness; so falling in among the other tro-ceived them graciously, and when phies, they set forward; and when his highness came within some half mile of the town, and began to take view thereof, it suddenly seemed like an enchanted castle, for from the mouths of dreadful engines, not long before full fed by moderate artsmen, that knew how to stop and empty the brass and iron paunches of these roaring noises, came such a tempest, as dreadful, and sometimes more dreadful than thunder, that all the ground thereabout trembled as in an earthquake, the houses and towers staggering, wrapping the whole town in a mantle of smoke, wherein the same was awhile hid from the sight of its royal owner. But nothing violent can be permanent; it was too hot to last; and yet I have heard it credibly reported, that a better peal of ordnance was never in any soldier's memory (and there are some old King Harry's lads in Berwick I can tell you) discharged in that place; nor was it very strange, for no man can remember Berwick honoured with the approach of so powerful a master. Well, the king is now very near the gates, and as all darkness flies before the face

his highness was entered betwixt the gates he restored to the said Mr. Selby the keys again, and graced him with the honour of knighthood for this his especial service, in that he was the first man that possessed his Excellence of those keys; Berwick, indeed, being the gate that opened into all his dominions. This done, his highness entered the second gate, and being within both the walls, he was received by the captain of the ward, and so passed through a double guard of soldiers, well armed in all points; but, with looks humble, and words cheerful, they gave his Majesty to know their hearts witnessed that their arms were worn only to be used in his royal service. Between this guard his Majesty passed on to the market cross, where the mayor and his brethren received him with no small signs of joy, and such signs of triumph as the brevity of the time for preparation would admit. But the common people seemed so overwrapt by his presence, that they omitted nothing their power and capacities could attain unto, to express loyal duty and hearty affection; kneel